service control manager windows xp pro

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When I try to log on with anything other than an
Administrator account, I get the error SC Man access
denied and when I click ok, it then comes back with,
unable to log on to service control manager. I then can
use the account normally and it works fine with a user
account and power user account. The message is very
annoying. I see that MS has a fix for Windows 2000 but is
not going to have a fix for XP Pro. More reasons to go
Linux. At least with Linux I got it for free and would
expect problems like that.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
What fix for W2k ?
This sounds like there is something configured at the
account login level (startup items, Run key, etc.) that
attempts to register a service. This may be something
dangerous, as it will possibly be configured to run as
the System account (spyware would like nothing more!)
You should examine the startup environment of the
accounts with such as MSconfig or tools downloadable
(www.sysinternals.com has a good one: Autoruns)
and make sure you do want this running when you log
in with an admin account.
 
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